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Monday estimated their wait was about three to 10 minutes.

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  1. intransitive verb To remain or rest in expectation: waiting for the guests to arrive. See Synonyms at stay1.
  2. intransitive verb To tarry until another catches up.
  3. intransitive verb To remain or be in readiness: lunch waiting on the table.
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  • In the end the wait was a little less than ten minutes. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • Doc Savage studied the natives, puzzled by the shape of their features, which bore some traces of Incan ancestry, yet were predominately the features of white men The reason for the wait was apparent when Monk and the others were hauled into view. —  094 - The Men Vanished
  • Whether his patience can afford the wait is another matter. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • It chanced that the wait was almost his undoing, however. —  011 - Brand of the Werewolf
  • Each time he heard steps, Maigret started, thinking his wait was at an end. —  Maigret on the Riviera—Georges Simenon—17
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try ·  ride ·  walk ·  go ·  stay ·  take ·  watch ·  stop ·  pause ·  sleep ·  give ·  stand

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wait:   Wait ·  waited ·  waiting ·  waits
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English waiten, from Old North French waitier, to watch, of Germanic origin; see weg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English waiten, wayten, from Old French waiter, waitier, gaiter, gaitier, guetter, French guetter (Walloon weitier) = Provencal gaitar, gachar = Italian guatare, watch, ward, mark, heed, note, lie in wait for, from Old French waite, gaite, a guard, sentinel: see wait, n. Cf. await.
 

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